“The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.”

“You’re allowed to believe in a god. You’re allowed to believe unicorns live in your shoes for all I care. But the day you start telling me how to wear my shoes so I don’t upset the unicorns, I have a problem with you. The day you start involving the unicorns in making decisions for this country, I have a BIG problem with you.”

“The revolution in global communications thus forces all nations to reconsider traditional ways of thinking about national sovereignty.”

“You already been a punk. Least you can do is go out like a man." Then a dull popping sound and a quiet splash.”

“I got lost in my doodles, and started daydreaming.”

“PerseveranceI’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.… Unless you have a lotof passion about this, you’re not going to survive. You’re going to give it up. So you’ve got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to rightthat you’re passionate about; otherwise, you’re not going to have the perseverance to stick it through.—Smithsonian Institution Oral and Video Histories,April 20, 1995”

“It’s not technically gossip if you start your sentence with “I’m really concerned about __________________ ,” (fill in the name of the person you’re not gossiping about).”